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Thanks for the reminder lads,its always a great watch and spectacle to see these old chargers being used for what they were designed for.

You cant be too strict on Harry now 😉😂 I had forgotten that it was a press car. But I think I remember him saying in his video with his Trophy,that he got it for a group test,over in France and loved it so much he rang up the Renault press office and asked to keep/buy the car. That's if my...

I don't know what number Harry's Trophy is, but that would be another one. Even though, technically it might have two now, since his son Charlie has the car now I think?

I get the feeling, the lawyers and the ensuing divorce will also add to the total bill Nick ;) :oops:

That looks lovely Nick, and agree re the white wheels. I might suggest something like a dark, gloss grey/silver. Is it a standard 197/200, not a Cup etc? Something like a Tolman 205 would be lovely, but only makes any sense if you already have a garage full of cars and spending over £100k on...

Much appreciated Ed ;) Who says life needs to be so complicated.... All you need is a relatively small, light weight car with a gutsy little engine up front, that is also partial to a bit of tripod cornering, courtesy of a mad French man behind the wheel 😁 Thats how I imagine you nipped...

This one will be like the last few minutes of a CC auction on a Sunday night 😁 The bids will be flying for this one Ed 😉

Be very interesting to see the final results if you go ahead with that, under the skirts project, so to speak ;) I think doing something like that to the underside, is not all that far off tackling something like an engine bay and making that look near concourse again. It can escalate really...

Not a problem at all Ed,the offer is open to anyone if it helps them in any way. I know most people will just suck it up and pay,but it might save someone a bit of hassle. I am quickly developing new skills at trying to avoid having to pay extra bloody taxes,buying stuff in from England now.

Just wanted to say. If any of you are thinking of visiting Ireland at some stage and you want to order parts from Europe, feel free to get them delivered to my address and can organise somewhere to meet you to give you the parts to take back with you. But I doubt many of you would suffer the...

Given the huge amount and variety of, often world class fabricators and workshops around the UK, you would think it shouldn't be impossible to get something akin to the original (in looks at least) and built to last a bit better, built. Maybe the possibility of a small group buy from others...

I have a real hankering to try a William's after watching that now Ed. You should be putting a health warning up on these posts 😉😂

Its like they made a RWD Clio before they came up with the V6, unbeknownst to themselves :) Unreal skills there.

I cant disagree with you there 😂 The thing is, the majority goes into the more general tax pot to help pay for everything else. On the plus side, the crap roads would just show you how good a car like the Trophy still is ;)

Bang on Ed,its on the old pre 2008 registered CC (Engine Size) payment. So €710/year. Also a peculiarity of the whole system,is if you only tax a car for 3 or 6 months at a time for example,you will pay more if you do it that way for 12 months. I used to barely believe it when relations...

Not at all Ed...he'll just have to order a second road sweeper as backup 😂

Damn Nick, you must have a road sweeper going down the road in front of you ;)😂 With the state of the roads around me lately, with all the slurry being put out, it wouldn't last two minutes before it would get destroyed!!

I believe it is based on the oils that they can extract from sheep's wool. I got it on my Cooper, so hopefully it does the job and for once, defies the inevitable chances of it falling to bits with rust.

Not meaning to sidetrack the thread, but just be very grateful that you don't live over here in Ireland. https://www.completecar.ie/motor_road_tax_prices_ireland_explained You would definitely have something to complain about then. We look at what you have to pay in the UK with a lot of...

I'm probably getting this all mixed up,but is Classic Car Auctions the one the likes of Harry does a preview of? It can be hard keeping track if all the different auction platforms these days (or maybe that's just me 🙈).

That looks to be wearing its near six figure mileage very well. From the pictures, you certainly couldn't tell it has 96k miles done anyway. Some nice spares with it as well.

As per usual, a really good review by Harry. Cars like this, are really becoming an endangered species. Your not going to be able to buy a new car with specs and performance like that, with such little weight....unfortunatley cars like that are fast coming to an end. If you are in the...

One nice bonus of owning a car like that would be that most people wouldn't want to take it out for a spin,so it would be all yours Nick 😉 You'd have nothing but the Raybans 😎 and a smile on you sitting in that 😁 I dont think I've seen too many Atoms that cheap before,aren't they notorious...

Reading through their history their founder also founded Aragosta (you tend to see those used in a lot of high end Skylines and the like in Japan) and seem to have a pretty serious and impressive history in a lot of different motorsport formulae.

I'm far from an expert, but I would guess the biggest influence on prices is the size of the market and economy of scale. Plus, are car related taxes,VAT etc. a lot lower Stateside? And to slightly flip your post on its head, speaking as someone living in Ireland, we get very envious of the...

If I'm reading those sold prices and the guide prices now right,the sellers will maybe make a loss/break even/slight profit? Amazing how quickly the market seems to have turned over the last 6/9 months. It sort of looks like people believed some of the extraordinary hype that you could buy a...

Looks like a fair bit of time and a lot of money has gone into that car.

The January Blues are likely to be unhelpful Nick. Be interesting to see if the seller will try the CC route for a third time? I've just seen that really nice Cup 200 has been put back up as a classified sale for £13,500. Apparently the person who won it about a week ago became a no show and...

I'm not sure if there is a correct answer to this, as there are no doubt so many different variables that would have an effect. But how long, generally speaking, would the dampers stay in a very good, useable condition, while sitting off a car, not being used?

Top class article there Craig. Loved the line "justification limbo that is quantum car mechanics" 😂 I think as car enthusiasts,we've all gone over that particular threshold more than once...unfortunately!! 🙈🙈😁